engineering
Posted Mar 17Senior Manufacturing Engineer
at Skyways
Austin, United StatesHybrid
Requirements
- Your work will directly impact production throughput, aircraft reliability, and the company’s ability to scale deployments.
Benefits
- Backed by Y Combinator and a $37M AFWERX STRATFI award from the U.S.
Additional details
- Skyways designs, builds, and operates fully autonomous long-range cargo aircraft.
- Founded in 2017, the company has spent the last eight years developing and deploying autonomous logistics systems for real-world operations.
- Our V2 aircraft carries 30 lbs up to 500 miles, while our next-generation V3 carries 100 lbs over 1,000+ miles with 20+ hours of endurance.
- Both use a hybrid-electric architecture that takes off like a helicopter and cruises like a plane, enabling long-range autonomous delivery without traditional runway infrastructure.
- Today, Skyways aircraft operate across three continents in controlled national airspace under FAA oversight and in support of U.S. military operations.
- We are transitioning from prototype development to full-rate production and scaling toward large autonomous cargo fleets.
- Air Force, Skyways is creating a new form of transportation to advance our civilization from Austin, Texas.
- The Opportunity This role helps scale aircraft production from prototype builds to repeatable manufacturing.
- You will develop manufacturing processes, tooling, and production workflows that improve build quality, efficiency, and repeatability across the aircraft.
- You will work closely with mechanical, electrical, flight, and production teams to identify manufacturing bottlenecks, improve assembly processes, and support rapid iteration as aircraft systems evolve.